The Reality Class

Back then in the university, examination was our biggest challenge. Every student dislikes being encased in a hall, and being served question papers and answer sheets for some hours. It was always gory, terrifying and dreadful.  But then, exam is what we have to do and pass to promote to higher level, therefore we just have to do it and pass it –like it or not. And sometimes we would fantasize a miracle should come and eradicate the dreadful examination system; but no miracle came.

After serious lessons and lecturing by our lecturers, plus the preparation time that would be given to us to get ready for the exam, students would also ask lecturers for tips. They want to know which part of their modules the lecturers would ask in exam. Students would dislike any lecturer that is not ready to give tips. They would badmouth him/her. Some students can even decide to drop the course and wait for the next semester.  And after all those institutionalized supports to help student pass, it won’t satisfy them. Students would remain disassembled, desperate and restive, just because they can’t dare to fail. And whenever students see the chance to interact or copy each other in exam halls, they would never hesitate to do so.

Those tricky to-dos worked for us. We passed out and we were so happy, believing that there will be no more terrifying exam papers in our life anymore. We were too juvenile; we were so melodramatic about our passing-out with endless celebration and jubilation. All because there will be no more examinations. We knew nothing then that our graduation was an indirect matriculation to a new class. A new class called REALITY! In this class, an entirely different and very odd pedagogy is adopted for teaching. We were so childish and we ignore to notice that, exams in this new class will no more be in halls and no more papers. There won’t be any study week before exams, no more tips and in fact this class is more strict to the extent that we won’t be seeing the teacher that is teaching us; thus we can’t intimidate anyone again with our bad mouthing. In this new class, we can’t drop course and it is not wise and not encouraging to copy answers, because you and your seatmates are given different questions. More strangely, lessons will be taught after examinations and not before. In this class, even though you pass or fail an exam, the same exam can be brought to you again and again; everything depends on your unseen lecturer. In the reality class, there is no seniority. A senior can be forced to do juniors exam and vice versa.

The more challenging thing is that, in the reality class, only one course is being taught with different modules for different students. The course code is “LIFE”. The unseen lecturer is super powerful, omnipresent and super-high so you can never cheat on him. He alone is the proprietor, the examiner and the creator of the new class. The tips that help in passing exams in reality are: DO’A (prayers) and total submission.